Combined rail joint and seat



J.C.REAMER COMBINED RAIL JOINT AND SEAT Filed Feb. 264 1923 ATTORNEYS Patented Nov. 11, 1924.

STATES JAY CLIFFORD READ/IE3, OF SANTA MOEICA, CALIFORNIA.

COMBINED RAIL JOINT AND SEAT.

Application filed February 26, 1923, Serial No. 621,285.

To all whom it may conceive:

Be it known that I, JAY CLIFFORD REAMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Santa- Monica, in the county of Los 'Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combined Rail Joints and Seats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to combined rail joints and seats, and it has for its objects to provide an improved device of this general character which will be superior in point of relative simplicity and inexpensiveness of construction and positiveness and efficiency in service and action, coupled with durability, freedom from liability to disarrangement, facility and convenience in installation, mounting and replacement or removal, which will permit free response of the rails or rail ends to expansion and contraction, which will eliminate the use of bolt holes in rail ends or fish plates and the like, as well as the use of bolts to pass therethrough and which will be generally superior in efficiency and serviceability, as well as elimination of a considerable portion of the noise ordinarily attendant upon the passing of rail joints by rolling stock.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel and useful provision, formation, combination, association and relative arrangement of parts, members and features, all as-hereinafter described, shown in the drawing, and finally pointed out in claims.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of fragments of rail ends showing the invention applied thereto and to railway ties set beneath the same;

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view taken upon the line 22, Figure 3, and looking in the direction of the appended arrows; and

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view, taken upon the line 3-3, Figure 2, and looking in the direction of the appended arrows.

Referring with particularity to the drawing, I have shown therein at AB two rail ends or rail end portions which are maintained aligned or joined, and also seated, by the improved combined rail joint and seat designated generally at C, and which cooperates with the rail ends at and adjacent to the gap 0 between the rail ends, or the meeting zone of the rail ends, as the case may upon which the major portions of the rails 1 rest, the lowering of the ties D permitting accommodation of the means C which include cheek plates 4: and 5 overlapping the Zone of junction of the rail ends and closely fitting and conforming to the rail base 6, and the rail web 7 and preferably fitting in longitudinal grooves or channels 8- in the underside of the rail crown, 9, such channels being milled outor otherwise produced to receive the upper extremities or longitudinal edges of the cheek plates 4 and 5. The rail base 6 rests upon a seat plate lO, which in turn rests upon a base seat plate 11, the latter in turn resting upon the two ties D, and having upturned end flanges 10 I which engage with the end portions of the cheek plates 4 and 5 and of the seat plate 10, thus preventing endwise displacement or relative displacement of said cheek plates and seat plate when the base seat plate is secured against lengthwise movement, as by spikes 12 which are driven through the base seat plate 11, or suitable spike openings 12 there in, and into the ties D, so that the spike heads 12 overlie lateral flanges and 4* on the cheek plates 4 and 5. These spikes in their coaction with the flanges last mentioned likewise prevent lateral movement of the rail ends, seat plate 10, cheek plates 4: and'5, and base seat plate 11, the entire oint and seat thus being eifectively maintained against displacement longitudinally or laterally, or in a resultant or combination of such directions, by so spiking the base seat plate 11 to the ties D. The check plates 4 and 5 also have inwardly directed flanges 4: and 4-, which are directed oppositely to the respective flanges 4 and 4 and these are provided with upwardly turned ribs 4 and 4 respectively, which enter grooves or channels 4 and 4 respectively in the seat plate 10 at the lateral portions thereof, such portions being of reduced thickness to permit of the lateral portions of the plate 10* overlying the flanges 4 and P. This arrangement provides a further interlocking relation between the seat plate 10 and the cheek plates 4: and 5, and prevents lateral displacement of the seat plate 10, or relative dis- I pleacement of same and the cheek plates & an 5.

The cheek plates 4 and 5 may readily be rolled or formed up or fabricated in any suitable manner, in long lengths, as may the seat plate 10 and the base seat plate 11, as by suitable rolling mill practice, and these lengths may be then out up to proper linear dimensions to provide one group of parts to constitutemeans C, to which, of course, are added the usual or suitable spikes 12. The rails are held freely by the combined joint and seat so that contraction and expansion can take place under varying thermal conditions, and the rail ends are prevented from displacement laterally, the means G being, as pointed out, positively held against displacement either longitudinally or laterally or in any component direction. The rail ends rest upon the seat plate 10 and the base seat plate 11 resultant-1y, which are firmly supported by the ties D, and thus material depression of the rail ends under the weight of rolling stock passing the joint is prevented, which prevents Wear and tear upon the rail end incident to the passage of rolling stock wheels over the ordinary rail joints. No section man is required to tighten up nuts and bolts, for none are employed, and the use of wrenches in installing, removing or maintaining the combined joint and seat is entirely dispensed with. The entire device is simple in construct-ion, readily made and installed and removed for replacement or repair, if required, and is durable and highly efficient in all respects, as well as sightly in appearance and compact in form.

It is obvious that various changes and modifications may be made in practicing the invention, in departure from the foregoing description and the specific structure of the drawing, without departing from the true spirit of the invention.

Having thus disclosed my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. The herein disclosed device, comprising plates adapted to be placed at the opposite sides of opposed rail end portions, a seat plate adapted to be disposed beneath the rail end portions and between said first named plates, and a base seat plate adapted to be placed beneath said other named parts and to be secured to railway ties; means being provided for preventing endwise or lateral displacement of all said parts; said sea-t plate and said first named plates being interlocked; and flanges being provided upon said first named plates for co-action with securing devices for holding said base seat plate in position.

2. The herein disclosed device, comprising plates adapted to be placed at the opposite sides of opposed rail end portions, a seat plate adapted to be disposed beneath the rail end portions and between said first named plates, and a base seat plate adapted to be placed beneath said other named parts and to be secured to railway ties; means being provided for preventing endwise or lateral displacement of all said parts, said first named plates being provided with lat eral flanges for receiving said means.

3. The herein disclosed device, comprising plates adapted to be applied at opposite sides of adjoining rail ends and overlapping said rail ends at their opposed end portions; said rail ends having the usual crown and base portions, said crown being formed to interlock with the plates, and means for interlocking theplates in stress resisting relation beneath the rail base portions.

at. The combination withopposed rail end portions, said rail end portions having the usual crown and base portions, of plates adapted to be placed on opposite sides of such opposed rail end portions, such plates being formed with flanged portions adapted to be received beneath the base portions of the opposed rails, and means for interlocking the flanged port-ions of the plates, said crown portions of the rails being provided with longitudinal channels and such plates being received, in part, within such channels.

In testimony whereof,I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAY CLIFFORD R-EAMER Witnesses:

J. Si-rU'r'r, EDNA TURNER. 

